germans thought about normality when it came to mesh's most recent adventures. the point is in september, twi, in the late summer, when the bpj took power, with an unprecedented majority, a super majority in the national diet, there was a shift. it was the beginning of a shift that mike schiffer alluded to. domestic politics mattered. the world hadn't yet changed much but the posture of japanese national security thinking and the discourse had changed. the first -- by dpj1 i'm referring to the hammia administration thanks in part to the serial misbehavior of the north korea you can always count on them but what david was talking about and mike was talking about sort of the surprising assertiveness of the chinese in the spring of last year, in the fall of last year, the government gave way to a kahn government which is more amenable to the status quo, not completely but more willing to hug the united states. and so efforts that had been made to reduce host nation support were abandoned. and so forth. it's in the paper and i hope you'll have a look at it. but what michishita and i thought

more clarity and metrics. that said i agree with the german bernanke i think i don't think we can provide a complete guidelines. there needs to be an area for judgment and getting more detailed metrics. >> is it your view the form that should take would be a notice to proposed rulemaking? >> that's a good question, senator. i a understand there may be a legal issue with the ability to write rules with this kind of criteria versus guidance and i would defer to the treasury legal counsel on the format. we have the legal authority to do it as a rule i think the would be fine but i would be for you to the treasury on that. >> senator, i agree with nearly everything that's been said with german bernanke about the use of violence and the subject of factors with the exercise of reasonable judgment but that said i think more transparency in the specificity about this process would be very valuable and i think robust comment period would inform the process greatly so very supportive of that. >> senator, just comforting chairman bernanke said is is metrics would be good to the metrics out t

do with the underlying legislation. they weren't relevant. they weren't germane. in light of our accommodation of extraneous amendments, it's difficult for me to understand why we can't finish debate on this bill. we've been more than fair. we should be able to reach agreement on considering remaining amendments and voting on final passage. i would hope that my friends on the other side of the aisle would recognize how unfair it is that one senator would hold up this legislation. there are amendments pending -- i repeat -- that aren't germane or relevant to this piece of legislation. we're willing to take votes on those. it would seem to me that senators like cornyn and hutchison, who have worked hard to get votes, should vote with us on our ability to move forward on this legislation. we should be able to get this done. it's the right thing for the country. it appears that we're not going to be able to do that. so i have no choice but to file cloture in order to bring this debate to a close. that's what i did last night. if this job-producing legislation is not passed, there's o

brought the german armed forces it didn't. from a hugely rapacious breakout that we hold the afghan government as having cable they never had such a thing happen before. i would like to think from what their resources had that they learned the lessons and they would never have it happen again. but we've got to remember the enemy is thinking and has a vote in these things and it was a very audacious and successful break out. i do not think we should think every person is about to escape from a number of secure locations in afghanistan as it has before, and there's a lot of soul-searching and there is a certain degree [inaudible] it is different than the way that we run ours. but they were never broken out before on that sort of scale but people do break out of our prisons. [inaudible] right off the british armed forces -- [laughter] >> any way we tend to back quite a lot but that is the concept it shouldn't have happened but had they learned their lessons [inaudible] there was a short while afterwards a major assault in berlin for a sample which happened in kandahar. do you fear that

were a cornyn amendment having absolutely nothing, no amendments or nothing being germane to this bill. when he one from senator hutch hutchison, same thing dealing with health care, has nothing to do with this legislation that's before the senate. so we had all kinds of amendments. very, very few had anything to do with the subject matter of the legislation. during the course of many weeks debating the bill, we've made efforts to accommodate senator snowe and the rest of the republicans on amendments but there's been no way of ending this. so we're going to file cloture tonight. we had a vote on another amendment offered by snowe. she's already had one vote on this, as well as multiple other republican amendments, nearly all of which, i repeat, had nothing to do with this underlying bill. in light of our accommodation to extraneous amendments, it's difficult for me to understand why we can't finish debate on this bill. but obviously, the republicans feel differently. we've been more than fair. we should be able to reach agreement on considering the remaining amendments and voting on f

war ii where german saboteurs were dropped off on our coast from a submarine and they were going to sabotage the united states of america. they were apprehended, taken to military tribunal, tried and executed in a matter of months, and the case went to the supreme court ex parte querin and was affirmed. there has never been any doubt that unlawful combatants can be tried for their crimes in military courts. it's done all over the world. it's an established principle. now, let's get one thing straight. if you're a lawful combatant and you are captured on the battlefield, whether you're a japanese soldier or a german soldier or an italian soldier and you have complied with the laws of war and you wear your uniform and you don't attack deliberately men, women and children, civilians and try to kill them and you comply with other rules of war, you can't be tried, you can just be detained until the war is over, but you don't get lawyers. you don't get trials and discovery and all of that sort of thing. but if in conducting your military campaign, you violate the internationally respected

prefer speaker or german? >> this is the best job in congress. >> mr. chairman, based on your suggestion it is my hope the senate will examine this issue more thoroughly perhaps save the potential $846 million in contract termination penalties and with that i would draw the motion. >> i thank the gentleman for withdrawing that amendment, and -- >> [inaudible conversations] >> i now recognize again the gentleman from alabama, mr. brooks for the purpose of offering an amendment. >> mr. chairman, could you go to the next one in line so i can get my notes? here we go. >> 117. >> sorry, i had the notes mixed up with the next one. some of the clerk please pass of the amendment. without objection reading in the amendment will be dispensed with. >> the purpose of this amendment is to prohibit the transfer of the missile defense technology to russia. -- >> suspend until we have a chance to get the past out. >> [inaudible conversations] >> the gentleman is recognized to explain his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment deals with prohibiting the transfer of missile defen

all of these different languages. german, esperanto is a little tough, but i think that's a 1%. estonia, finnish, spanish, part french, here's the coolest one. it's in chinese simplified. okay? just by the activist crowd sourcing, just trying to get into spanish and chinese alone means that it is now accessible to a couple of billion more people on earth. and would discredit dennis for abc, nbc or cbs? i would have done this for public media that they believe in? i think this is part of the tool that i think it's part of the exist but i know i took more of my time. [applause] >> thank you, hari. let me just pause for a moment of moderate prerogative, and say, and ask you a little bit about your metrics. what's happened to your web traffic that you can tell us? [inaudible] >> i have no idea, you know more than idea about the numbers. >> i think, you know, for us last year we knew we're going to have us down here over your number so we really, when we saw 50%, 60% growth realize, find, compare to the newshour of two years ago. this year what we are surprised about is on a month

countries in the world. the germans pay 50% more for manufacturing and labor, and they have the lowest unemployment rate in 19 years because their government favors manufacturing, they retrained their workers to remain productive, and their government goes overseas to sell german goods. now, put that aside, and let's turn to economics and health care in the context of american exceptionalism. first of all, america only works when americans are working. the current economic policy is a disaster. this is the longest period of unemployment since the great depression. in every recession since world war ii, we would right now be in the second year of a recovery. and yet the obama policies, i can't get the white house to understand, this is a very simple phrase: job-killing policies kill jobs. [laughter] and this administration in regulation, in the tax policy, in psychological attitude is the opposite of reagan. reagan came in at the end of the carter years, we had 22% interest rates, 13% inpoliceinf, and we were sliding into the deepest recession until the obama recession. at that period r

corps volunteers have made the difficult decision to testify about their germanic experiences and i commend them for their bravery and continued commitment to affect positive change in the peace corps. we'll also hear from another he peace corps volunteer who did not return home. lois puzey will testify about how the case when she reported the rape and abuse of students for whom she cared so deeply. following the testimony, we will hear from aaron williams, the peace corps inspector general, kathy jeweler. we will find ways to address these so they will not fear for their safety and we are joined today, thank thank you, senator isakson from georgia. we are joined by senator johnny isakson whose constituent is lois puzey. his attendance is another example for securing justice for lois says dr. k2 was killed during her service as a peace corps volunteer in benin and i understand you will be traveling there next week to get further update on the case. i am pleased to recognize my good friend, ranking member mr. berman for his opening remarks. >> thank you very much, madam chairman. tha

german representative to this conference. and i think we cannot talk about biofuel without talking about boeing because boeing is being so active for many, many years, moving the subject of biofuels forward, that we, lufthansa, celebrating 50 years of corporation last year, and now 51 years already. we are very much impressed by the leadership said that boeing has taken on the worldwide base. not talk about domestic u.s.a. only but on a worldwide basis to really attract, to step into the country and as a follower of this track, i can say we in europe, we are operating that is basically operated by boeing manager who is dealing and talking to us every day. so i must say to a certain extent, and i love it to say, europe is being run from seatt seattle. >> thank you for the kind words. let me put this in your head, with us on this panel, about five years ago the wisdom and aviation, me included, was biofuels will not work in jet airplanes. it will not meet technical standards, it can't make enough, et cetera, et cetera. by three years ago we had proven it was possible, but probably un

a greek and german get married? it is a cultural disaster. [laughter] in fact, this is how badly -- i had a lapel pan want at a fund-raiser in orlando, have to do lot of that stuff right now, but someone tore my lapel sticker off and said look at this. if you take the vowels of of the name reince priebus, the firstname you get, rnc, and it gets better, the last thing you get, pr, bs. [laughter] so we know this is need for me. this job. well, obviously -- [laughter] the cheeseheads have had a pretty good run, and we will talk about the packers, but certainly leader on i'm going to mention a few of those cheeseheads as a walk through some short remarks for you today. it's obviously great to be back with you. i was here in grand rapids when you had your meeting a year ago. and today, you are celebrating ronald reagan's 100th birthday. and it is obviously an honor to be here along side of america's

. artimus glory, a german-owned crewed carrier. the helicopter from the buckley saw the pirates firing on the merchant ship and returned fire, sinking the skiff and killing the four pirates aboard. also on monday, u.s.s. bainbridge responded to a distress call from a cargo carrier, the m.s.e. alia after the crew of the alia repelled a pirate attack. the bainbridge arrived and located the mothership responsible for the attack. the crew made contact with the pirates who ultimately agreed to abandon their mothership that they had hijacked just four days before. ironically, the skiff of the pirates then sank and the pirates were rescued by the bainbridge. madam president, i want to commend the men and women serving on the u.s.s. steven groves, the u.s.s. buckley, and the u.s.s. bainbridge for jobs very well done. my hope in the future is that we can have far more robust rules of engagement empowering commander rick and his fellow commanders to eliminate the threat of piracy. of course, this mission would be in the highest traditions of the united states navy and in the tradition of

germans thought about normality than the united states in recent adventures, so we have variations. the point is in september -- or a point is in september of 2009 in the late summer when the dpj took power with unprecedented majority, a supermajority in the national diet, there was a shift. it was the beginning of a shift that mike schiffer eluded to. domestic politics masker. the posture of the thinking and the discourse had changed. the first -- the dpj one i refer to the administration which thanks in part to the misbehavior of the north koreans, you can count on them, but also to what david and mike were talking about, the sort of surprising assertiveness of the chinese in the spring of last year and in the fall of last year. the -- the government gave way to a kaun government more amendable to the status quo, not completely, but more willing to hug the united states, and so efforts that had been made to reduce host nation supports were abandoned and so forth. there's a long list. it's in the paper, and i hope you have a look at it. but what we thought would be particularly importa

defined this to the point where did we go to war to fight against the twelfth german panthers division? did we go to war to fight against the 55th infantry japanese regiment? if you narrowly define yourself then you create gaps then we can be exploited. remember before al-qaeda the terrorist group that had inflicted the most damage upon the united states of america was hezbollah. and if you do the research and see what hezbollah has become. it's a nonstate, nonuniform belligerent armies. very capable military. such capable military right now that they have missiles in their arsenal that can strike every city in israel. but yet we don't see them as being part of an enemy. you know, back some time ago in the early 1800s we had an incident with some folks we called the barbary pirates and here we are in the 21st century battlefield we have the exact same and we have these individuals called the somali pirates but yet we don't know how to contend with them. that was one of the questions that i asked one of the defense legal team when they came over to testify. how do you classify the somal

parity is to the german descent in the southern mediterranean. we also have to grow lessons for the future. in short we need to put in place a strategy for longer term. i have set out with have created such a strategy, but i look forward to discussions which can lead to a comprehensive migration fully in line with our approach to migration. along these lines, the prime minister has recently stated we should clearly differentiate between economic and political refugees. here up must issue to be true to herself and europe must have similar to the marshall plan the countries of north africa to create the causes for migration. the would require the agreement on ourselves but also the consultations with the neighbors and partnership with north africa and we need to take into account a wide range of factors such as international protection, migration, mobility and security and to conclude from the white perspective on a more southern neighbors share the assistance by all available means in the transition to open the democratic prosperous societies. this is the best way of addressing the p